Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center

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Address:
2288 Fulton Street #202, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Website:
berkeley.shambhala.org

Phone number:
+1 510-841-3242

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Reviews about Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center

• Tyler Thompsono

  Sep, 11 2018
  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
  When my wife and I moved to the east bay two years ago from Colorado, we quickly learned we would need something to keep us grounded here. California was a whole different animal from what we were used to.
  
  We soon discovered the Berkeley Shambhala center and began attending their Wednesday night dharma talks and sits.
  
  Through fortuitous circumstance, the center was just starting up an internship program in radical leadership. We leaped at the opportunity and haven’t looked back.
  
  It will soon be two years since our landing at the Berkeley sangha. Thanks to the Berkeley center community (as well as its sister San Francisco and Silicon Valley centers), my wife and I feel more connected—in the heartfelt sense of the word—than we have ever felt to any community anywhere. The Berkeley Shambhala center is family to us.
  
  It is challenging to even begin describing how transformative the impact the Berkeley center has been for me personally. It is such a dynamic place. The openness and trust of its leadership inspires its members to spearhead projects that inspire them. It has helped me find my voice through art, to understand and appreciate the relationship of meditation to art. It has helped me become a better listener through dyad practice. It has introduced me to radically powerful practices such as social meditation, making sitting practice a true community experience. It has helped me to open my senses and to tap more directly into the greater world around me. In sum, it has helped me to appreciate the importance of meditation and its application to every aspect of my life.
  
  I’m not sure I could have stayed sane in the bay without the support of the Shambhala community and the Berkeley center in particular. Hyperbole aside, it has proven to be an oasis of sanity in a desert of confusion.
  

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